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Well we managed to finish moving in before I had to turn in my keys to the old shop on July 1st. The place is an absolute and utter disaster right now (you REALLY don't know how much stuff you have until you have to move it). Yesterday we finished the mezzanine and putting the floor down on...

My wife and I don't have (or want) kids so I have a tendency to buy myself fun toys. There are a bunch of motorcycles missing from that picture. :)

We started moving stuff and we brought my car over finally. To give a sense of scale she's about 21 feet long. Then of course we had to break out the drift trike :) https://photos.app.goo.gl/MpDyeAdfbdx3aayS8

Honestly it's pretty much what you see with a lot more wiring and random ****. We have a bunch of banners, some neon, and random pieces of randomness we might hang on the walls (and my soapbox car from the ceiling) but that's pretty much it. The 'machine shop' area under the mezzanine will get...

LET THERE BE LIGHT! When looking at different lighting solutions we saw quite a few that we thought would be good but most of them involved some kind of 2nd mortgage to afford. Saw some absolutely incredible LED panels that were about $220 each but we'd need probably 15 of them and honestly...

I only did the 1/2 for the 14g wire for the lights for that exact reason. One of my shop mates (who does commercial HVAC for a living) loaned me his 1/2 and 3/4 benders. Pretty much everywhere else in the shop is getting 3/4" and we're likely going to run the 1" conduit (with bought bends...

We have power! After doing some reading about the lights I bought we decided to just wire them all on the same circuit and daisy chain 3 together per rafter set. The 5 lights that are up right now are pulling almost 2.9A total so the 15A circuit is enough to handle all 15 lights. Pulling...

Spent the day on Sunday trying to clean the dirt off the floors but my pressure washer broke (chemical injector fitting split and caused water to fountain out of it). Ended up just using the prodigious water pressure, a spray nozzle, and a lot of squeegee work to get about of half of the shop...

Looks good! I think that 25' is a very long span for a single span purlin and generally you'd want an 8" or 10" purlin for that. As far as roof pitch you'll probably end up at a 1:12 or 2:12 pitch when talking to the engineer and they'll have to calculate various load ratings. I would...

That is a beautiful setup! Well done for sure. So much planning must have gone into that and it turned out fantastic.

The mezzanine was upgraded from 40 to 50 psf. We're going to be using 3/4" T&G OSB for the flooring. Considering I need about 28 sheets of it it might be a bit before I go buy enough to put up.

Guess who passed their certificate of completion on the first try? THIS GUY!

Spent the day today doing more landscaping along the driveway. We should be scheduled for the inspection tomorrow! Also I’m happy to say that after 8 days I’m starting to see some grass sprouting up but only exactly where the power company will be running wire in the next few days.

For those playing the home game Sir @clinto is my esteemed friend and GC on this project with us.

One of those funny little tidbits you pick up at some random point. The term 'mandoor' was actually a Dutch word for basically a foreman for slaves. In more modern parlance a 'man door' sometimes specifically means a door cut into a bigger garage style door. A door entering a garage space or...

Time for a big ole fat daddy update! We passed the electrical inspection last week and they should be running from our transformer to the 2 x 200A panels in the next few days. Spent last weekend doing a bunch of landscaping and grading (seriously, if you don't buy a tractor with a loader when...

So after researching both CFS and red iron I felt that since we're primarily a fabrication shop and I'm a fair carpenter that putting it together wouldn't be that hard. Honestly if I had to do a second one I'd probably do another CFS because we learned so much the first time that I bet we could...

That is correct. The roof is 'galvalume' which is some kind of coated galvanized metal.

Thanks @NickH ! It's a big ole ******* for sure. Originally we were going to do a 14' tall building (wanted enough clearance for the racks I already have) but the mezzanine just made sense for longer term storage so we added it and made it tall enough to walk around which is why ended up with...

Contractors are done with the siding, roof, trim, and gutters! Electrician is coming out today to figure out where to put the meter and panel(s) (we are hoping for a single 400A panel but we'll probably get 2 x 200A. Unfortunately the power company can't or won't bring me 3 phase power so...